I read it when it came out - I wanted to see how it compares to my understanding and experience now. I’ve worked on successful agile projects of all sizes for the last 10 years. What you’re describing is waterfall not agile. We deliver working software in increments over the lifetime of the project with the most important features first and we learn from real customer feedback. Real agile projects, not corporate Agile (Scrum), offer stakeholders real visibility as the project progresses. It is not a silver bullet and is a total waste in environments where command and control are king because you will never get the communication, collaboration, trust and respect necessary to be agile.

It’s quite amazing how many people claim to practice agile, but really have no idea what it is and isn’t. It certainly isn’t some magic bullet and doesn’t mean you don’t have to do the hard stuff like good engineering.

He is a record collector -a connoisseur of vinyl, hunting out rare and elusive LPs. His business card describes him as the "Vinyl Detective" and some people take this more literally than others. Like ...

A detective hunting down rare vinyl, who loves cats and has a mate called Stinky! Written by anyone recognisable?

I just found in a free bookshop a couple of books by Jeff Noon, an author I’d completely forgotten about. I read a few chapters of Vurt while the kids were playing, it’s about as bonkers as I remember. The only recent author who has got close to Philip K Dick, I reckon.